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Among its many quirks, Davis Cup allows the home team to pick the playing surface of its choosing and the venue -- in Canada’s case, a hockey rink turned into a tennis facility that becomes as boisterous as a hockey rink.

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TORONTO — The medals for this summer’s Pan American Games and Parapan Am Games and are made of materials from mines in Ontario, the Dominican Republic and Chile, and feature Braille for the first time ever. The gold, silver and […]

Brad Jacobs saw an opportunity and went for it in Monday afternoon’s draw at the 2014 Tim Hortons Brier. The Olympic champion took advantage of a pair of miscues by Northwest Territories skip Jamie Koe to score four in the fifth end. Jacobs and his Northern Ontario foursome of third Ryan Fry, second E.J. Harnden […]

NEW YORK — The NBA has suspended Houston Rockets star James Harden one game without pay for kicking LeBron James in the groin. The all-stars and Olympic teammates became tangled in the third quarter of Houston’s 105-103 […]

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SAN JOSE, Calif. - Ben Smith scored just hours after being acquired by San Jose in a deadline deal and the Sharks shut out Montreal for the third straight meeting in a 4-0 win over the Canadiens on Monday night.

NFL games have begun for 2015. Don’t bother checking out your Sunday Ticket, though. This is not football the teams are playing, it’s tag. Monday was the deadline for franchises to decide whether to hold onto key players who are […]

Tyler Johnson scored a career-high 26 points, Goran Dragic added 21 against his former team and the Miami Heat beat the Phoenix Suns 115-98 on Monday night in a game that included two third-quarter altercations.

LONDON — Fernando Alonso will not race in the season-opening Australian Grand Prix following a crash during Formula One testing that sent him to the hospital for three days, McLaren said Tuesday. The decision was taken to avoid the chance […]

By the start of next season, the Arizona Coyotes could have a line full of Canadian world junior stars. They acquired Anthony Duclair from the New York Rangers on Sunday to compliment top prospect Max Domi and will have a […]

The Calgary Flames delivered a devastating blow on Monday and it had absolutely nothing to do with the National Hockey League trade deadline. Heart-and-soul captain and their Norris Candidate defenceman — Mark Giordano — is done for the 2014-15 season. The 31-year-old, who was on pace for a career-best year, suffered a torn biceps tendon […]

Brian Burke, former general manager of the Vancouver Canucks, the Anaheim Ducks and the Toronto Maple Leafs and now president of the Calgary Flames, always looked at the folly of the wheeling and dealing at the trade deadline with a bemused look to go with the undone tie around his neck and would say “there’s only one team that’s going to have a Stanley Cup parade.” There’s only one winner, and you can’t tell until late June, and it’s never been more so than right now with no juggernaut teams in the National Hockey League.

There are three types of Edmonton Oilers fans, and there was a little something for all of them from general manager Craig MacTavish on Monday after he traded Jeff Petry to the Montreal Canadiens for two draft picks.Wait, no, sorry. A quick recount reveals there are only two types of fans: a hostile faction convinced Oilers management is a bumbling lot; and a gaggle of beaten-down true believer wannabes driven to deep skepticism by years of disappointment. You’d have to think both groups of fans were equally receptive to MacTavish’s message on Monday that: “Good times are coming, that much I know for sure.”

Canadiens GM Marc Bergevin was eating his Wheaties early in San Jose on Monday, trading a 2015 second-round draft pick and a conditional fifth-round pick to the Edmonton Oilers for defenceman Jeff Petry.

IRVING, Texas — Dez Bryant will get four more months to work on a long-term deal with the Cowboys and make $12.8 million next year after the team used its franchise tag on the star wide receiver. Bryant led the […]

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — Padraig Harrington captured his first PGA Tour title in more than six years on Monday when he birdied the final hole in regulation and then beat 21-year-old rookie Daniel Berger on the second hole of […]